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- From: trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au (Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE)
- Subject: Re: Bug in PageStream 2.21
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.225504.4172@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:55:04 GMT
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- weber@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Christian A. Weber) writes:
- : Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE (trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au) wrote:
- : : Also If I use CGFonts in PageStream I get a good print from pageStream.
- : : But when printing to file and using post they all come up as my default font.
- : : There is no accsess to the fonts in the CGFonts:PS/ according to Snoopdos
- : : so what givs.
- :
- : The CGFonts:PS/ directory is used by PPage. It has nothing to do with
- : PageStream.
- :
- : : Are CGFonts only for printing through PageStream ?
- : [...]
- : : I haven't used the PostScript printer yet though.
- :
- : CGFonts cannot be printed directly to a PostScript printer since they
- : are in a completely different format than PS fonts. Most PS printers
- : have 35 resident fonts (including Times and Helvetica [==Triumvirate])
- : so PageStream automatically changes all references to CGTimes to
- : the internal Times font in the PS printer. There's also a PS
- : version of Garamond supplied with PageStream (because most PS
- : printers don't have Garamond resident) which will be included
- : in PageStream's PS output.
- :
- : As Post does not have any resident fonts you must either make sure
- : that you're using a font in Soft-Logik format or Garamond in CG
- : format or you must supply the font in Adobe Type 1 format and
- : put it into Post's font path.
- :
-
- I thought that much so I made sure that the postcript versions
- of the fonts were available. No luck though. Post did not even attempt to
- access them acording to snoopdos. It went ahead and printed with the default
- font. I will try some time later with a postcrypt printer and I'll see what I
- can do. Does anyone know were I can get my hands on a PD version of a
- Symbol font ?
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- : --Martin
- :
- : --
- : Martin A. Blatter - blatter@ifi.unizh.ch, blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch
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- George
-